10th USk anniversary in Bombarral and the world

It’s been ten years since Urban Sketchers (USk) have been around! To celebrate the occasion, a worldwide sketchwalk was put together, with more than a hundred USk regional chapters sketching during the 11th of November. Many of the sketches and pictures shared on social media under #USkGlobal24hrSketchwalk were reposted in the USk Instagram account by a dedicated team of volunteers.

Oeste Sketchers made the town of Bombarral their site for the global celebration. It couldn’t have been a better location! Sketchers roamed around the beautifully tiled train station and the peculiar Abel Pereira da Fonseca house during the morning.

Things briefly went very official, as the all the sketchers were greeted by the town’s mayor in the noble salon of the City Hall. Informality soon returned, as everyone got invited for a barbecue in the serene municipal gardens. Pork galore, home made liquor and unusual encounters soon ensued.

A poker of barefoot Americans wandered into the gardens, brought by the mayor himself. They happened to stop by during a tour around the country after a major Steemit event in the capital. Sara, Shellie, Quinn and Lucca hail from the Garden of Eden community in Texas and are Steemit gurus, living a simple, sustainable and community-based life with other like-minded people, while thriving in the crypto-currency world.

Author: Pedro Loureiro

I was born on the southwestern-most tip of Europe, in Lagos, Portugal. A childhood of legos and sandcastles led me to architecture school, but an adolescence of doodling drove me to sketching and later to illustration. I like to sketch, to travel and to chop vegetables into tiny manageable bits.
I also like maps. The older the better!
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